In a briefing on Wednesday, David Bradbury, Chief Security Officer at Okta, told virtual attendees that the incident has been “an embarrassment for myself and the entire Okta team.” Okta has become the subject of scrutiny following the leak of screenshots by the LAPSUS$ hacking group earlier this week. The images appeared to show that the attackers had obtained access to “Okta.com Superuser/Admin and various other systems.” The identity and authentication services company said there was a five-day window in which the intrusion occurred....

If money is no object, then sure, treat yourself to the latest and greatest smartphone. You’ll reap the benefits of the newest technologies and have a trustee pocket companion that will last you for years down the road. But for those shopping on a dime, the dilemma becomes, “Should I buy a new midrange phone or an old flagship phone?” The two may cost the same, but the advantages are not as identical as the price suggests....

Apple is also hosting a watch party at Apple Park where some developers and students can “watch the keynote and State of the Union videos together, along with the online community,” according to the company. So, what can we expect? In the headline, I teased that there are four announcements we’re almost 100% positive Apple will be making. Those announcements are for the latest cadence releases of the company’s four named operating systems: iOS, iPadOS, WatchOS, and macOS....

According to Apple’s system status page, a number of services started experiencing issues around 9:30 am PT, including the App Store, Apple Fitness+, and Apple Care on Device. Two hours later, many were still down. On Apple’s developer system status page, the company reported that beginning at 9:40 am PT, all users started experiencing problems with the following services Account, Apple Developer Forums, Certificates, Identifiers & Profiles, CloudKit Console, CloudKit Database, Code-level Support, Contact Us, MapKit JS Dashboard, Program Enrollment and Renewals, Software Downloads and Videos....

An unsecured database containing over 61 million records related to wearable technology and fitness services was left exposed online. On Monday, WebsitePlanet, together with cybersecurity researcher Jeremiah Fowler, said the database belonged to GetHealth. Based in New York, GetHealth describes itself as a “unified solution to access health and wellness data from hundreds of wearables, medical devices, and apps.” The firm claims that the GetHealth platform is able to pull health-related data from sources including Fitbit, Misfit Wearables, Microsoft Band, Strava, and Google Fit....

The figures come from Microsoft’s Digital Defense Report 2022 and are based on analysis of trillions of alerts and signals collected from the company’s worldwide ecosystem of products and services. It warns that cyberattacks are on the rise, with account passwords still very much the main target of hackers – particularly as many accounts are vulnerable because they lack any additional layers of protection beyond the password itself to help keep them secure....

If you are trying to get that raise, think again. A Gartner study shows that 51% of organizations plan to raise wages only for top performers in the face of inflation. SEE: Inflation is about to change grocery shopping for good The study polled 130 CEOs and CFOs, asking them how their organization plans to adjust compensation for salaried employees to match inflation. The business leaders had to choose between all employees or top performing employees; they also had to choose between selected – markets where inflation was the most severe – or all markets....

The JEDI contract was designed to upgrade legacy DoD systems with newer cloud services. When bidding for the contract kicked off, the DoD said the JEDI Cloud would provide “enterprise-level, commercial IaaS (infrastructure as a service) and PaaS (platform as a service) to the Department and any mission partners for all Department business and mission operations.” It was widely believed throughout much of the bidding process that AWS would be awarded the contract....

The top line results are … dispiriting. Bank fraud attacks have increased 159% over the past year and phone banking fraud has seen a 728% increase. Over 90% of fraud attacks occurred online, and California, where I live, won the unwelcome distinction as the top state for fraud. Take that, New York. FBI receives record level of complaints for online scams, investment fraud The jumps follow a post-pandemic logic. Coming out of lockdown, people are starting to spend more money locally and internationally....

“We wanted to figure out a way to bring the merger to our clients faster,” Ken Meyer, Truist Bank’s CIO of the Channel Engineering & Innovation, said to ZDNet, “and not have to have them wait necessarily for these big backend conversions to ultimately start to introduce the brand and what we’re all about.” Meyer spoke with ZDNet about how the straddle works and why it was the best strategy for the newly-formed bank....

“QNAP urges all QNAP NAS users to follow the security setting instructions below to ensure the security of QNAP NAS and routers, and immediately update QTS to the latest available version,” the company said in a statement. Attached to the statement is a detailed guide for customers, noting that if you go to the Security Counselor on your QNAP NAS and see “The System Administration service can be directly accessible from an external IP address via the following protocols: HTTP” on the dashboard, you are at high risk....

John Smee, vice president of engineering at Qualcomm, said the company is working to break “technology barriers” and bring “superior 5G system performance to new industries, use cases and experiences for the smartphone and beyond.” At the event the company unveiled 5G V2X sidelink, technology that will be used to connect vehicles to each other as well as pedestrians, bikers, local infrastructure and nearby roadside units. Qualcomm researchers said the end goal for the technology was to improve road safety by connecting cars to more things through 5G....

But to fill the burgeoning opportunities in quantum, transferring even the most expert knowledge of classical computers into the quantum world just won’t cut it. Quantum computers are fundamentally different from the classical devices we know and use every day. Instead of relying on bits, quantum systems leverage the complex laws of quantum physics to create quantum bits, or ‘qubits’, that are capable of carrying out calculations exponentially faster. SEE: What is quantum computing?...

The FBI says in its 2021 annual report that Americans last year lost $6.9 billion to scammers and cyber criminals through ransomware, BEC, and cryptocurrency theft related to financial and romance scams. In 2020, that figure stood at $4.2 billion. Last year, FBI’s Internet Crime Complaint Center (IC3) received 847,376 complaints about cybercrime losses, up 7% from 791,790 complaints in 2020. SEE: This sneaky type of phishing is growing fast because hackers are seeing big paydays BEC has been the largest source of fraud for several years despite ransomware attacks grabbing most headlines....

Nearly a decade of life is good for a processor, but as workloads evolve and projects built on the Pi get more and more complex, it was starting to show its age. I recently attempted to use a Pi Zero WH to drive a 4-inch touch screen for a simple monitoring project, and quickly swapped it out for a Raspberry Pi 4. At the same time, supplies of the Pi Zero started to dry up, faster than expected with the current chip famine....

The Razer Leviathan V2 is the latest soundbar from the California-based gaming company, and it builds on the foundation of its 2015 predecessor with a new and improved feel and finish. Audio performance has taken a major leap, too, of course. Given the smaller segment of gaming-tailored soundbars, Razer had room to be bold when pricing the Leviathan V2 – and it certainly was. The soundbar, which comes with a subwoofer, costs $249....

The immediately eye-catching thing about my Realme 8i review unit was its pale lavender-coloured backplate with a silver tint. This colour, which Realme calls Space Purple, won’t appeal to everyone, but it’s certainly distinctive. More conservative buyers can choose the Space Black alternative. The backplate is a fingerprint attractor and also quite slippery in the hand. Realme includes a clear bumper with the phone, which will solve these issues, while also affording extra protection for the plastic backplate....

Some 85% of business leaders suspect their workers are shirking at home while only 12% of them have “full confidence” their employees are being productive, according to the results of Microsoft’s survey of 20,000 people in 11 countries. As companies begin to entice or pull workers back to the office full-time or on a hybrid basis, Microsoft is spotlighting the emergence of “productivity paranoia” and says business leaders need to get over it because it may endanger the future of hybrid work....

Inside the box, there is the camera, antenna, a pack of screws, a Torx key – which is similar to an Allen key – a 1M of Ethernet cable and a waterproof connector shield. The camera is well built and sturdy. The case is constructed of aluminium and has a toughened lens cover to prevent dust and water ingress. The user guide for the camera also indicates that there is a power extension cable and a power adapter, but if you have purchased the PoE (Power over Ethernet) model, the power adaptor is not necessary....

Whitehouse press secretary Jen Psaki flagged the executive order and its right-to-repair component at a press conference on Tuesday. “As part of the President’s forthcoming executive order on competition… the U.S. Department of Agriculture announced it will engage in a series of rulemakings to increase competition in agricultural industries to boost farmers’ and ranchers’ earnings, fight back against abuses of power by giant agribusiness corporations, and give farmers the right to repair their own equipment how they like,” she said....